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What are the leading policies on limiting bug reporting redundancy?
Currently automated reports run on recurring monitors based on user encounters. At the start the automated errors were for the most part useless because there were 400 low priority bugs, 50 major, two ...
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Driving client interaction tests with Selenium
I have some experience with JMeter for performance and scale, but I'm very new to Selenium for browser based testing.
At present I have some simple Selenium scripts recorded for Firefox. These are ...
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what is Keys.ZENKAKU_HANKAKU in webdriver?
As i came across this code,
driver.findElement(By.name("xxx")).sendKeys(
Keys.ZENKAKU_HANKAKU);
so wanted to know why and when to use this kind of key.
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What is the difference between type() and typeKeys() in WebDriver?
As both of them do the same activity is there any special differences between type and typekeys in selenium webdriver.
wdBacked.type(locator, value);
wdBacked.typeKeys(locator, value);
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How to automate test the website inside some windows desktop app?
I have this question:
I found there are web test automation tools such as selenium, but they are designed for testing website in the browsers such as ie/firefox/google chrome...
What if the website ...
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Using Selenium Opera Driver doesn't start my test execution
I am able to open the Opera browser using Selenium Opera driver. But I am unable to navigate to any URL using: driver.get("www.google.com");
Opera driver starts and doesn't load the given link.
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Using Ruby Selenium WebDriver how to check URL or Navigation which return 404?
What is the most convenient way of using Ruby script for Selenium WebDriver to check all url's (from navigation menu)of any web page.Actually want to run them to see where they go.
For example:
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How do you manage dependencies between automated UI tests?
I am currently helping out with the TodoMVC project by adding automated tests. I have been 'exercising' my tests by trying them out on new submissions, such as this one recently. One problem I have ...
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How to estimate "how many servers our company sould purchase for this web app" with load/performance testing?
this is a question I faced in an interview:
A web app is going to go online and the manager want you to find out how many servers the company should purchase. We have one server(used by testers) and ...
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How to use rollup command in selenium ide?
I am new to selenium IDE, As with reference to below image i cant click
into rollup icon during and after my recording.
So kindly explain me how to, why and what time we should use rollup in
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How to select a particular date from calendar?
Hello Im using selenium ide, how to select an date from calendar popup through selenium ide,
Below is my calendar popup.
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Should I try the evaluation version of HP Quality Center?
I'm trying to determine if I should spend some time working with a trial version of HP Quality Center. For a number of reasons, my time is very valuable to me right now both at work and in my ...
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Open source Automation Tools for html based calendar software
I am testing an appointment based software, where clients book appointments on a calendar. When you login to the site, calendar will be loaded with a weekly view displaying appointments. For everyday ...
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Release methodology for complex distributed system
I have a problem on deciding how to guarantee good testing of a complex distributed system before release. We have an automated testing infrastructure in place. The problem is that running all the ...
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What should I do with test flappers which cannot be fixed?
What should I do with tests which flap once every 30 runs or so? This behavior is due to some webdriver or browser issue and cannot be fixed.
Should I delete the test; so that it does not continue ...
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QA Automation Tool. QTP vs Selenium [closed]
My department is currently looking at a tool for QA automation. On that side we are looking at both QTP and Selenium.
The major features we want are automation of regression testing, something ...
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Test Automation in Agile?
Since Agile is iterative and many test-last tools are record and playback-style, and therefore can't really be applied in an Agile environment, this brings up a few issues.
the target for test is ...
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What are the main goals of "Automated Testing"? [closed]
Do you agree with the following 3 sentences about Automated Testing ?
Increases the agility of development
Increases software quality
Does not reduce global duration of testing (including planning, ...
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JMeter Concurrent Users Count Practice
I have a web application which is working in production and there are 2000+ users of my application. Now I have to perform performance testing on the system so is there any idea how many concurrent ...
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Getting Started Web service and RestFul API Testing with CUCUMBER - Looking for tutorials
I am looking to get started building a project and want to use CUCUMBER from day one. My Ruby background is Intermediate; however, I do have a good understanding of MVC and the structure within Ruby.
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Framework and tools for managing testing and monthly releases?
I'm not anywhere close to being an expert on professional QA and testing but I do work with it as part of managing a IT system at work. To be honest, we are not very mature when it comes to using an ...
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Tool to UI, Performance, Functionality testing for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for IOS mobile application
I am new to IOS mobile application testing, can anyone suggest me the automation tool for IOS mobile application, so that UI, functionality and performance test could be done with that. I tried with ...
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What's a good test oracle for generators
I need to write test cases for a system that generates work cards (a word document that shows how much time an individual has spent on working on different client tasks). The user enters:
Monday
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Access the DOM of a PDF using WebDriver and FireFox's built-in PDF viewer
I'm trying to use FireFox's built-in javascript PDF viewer with WebDriver so I can access the DOM of a PDF. However, FireFox has an Adobe plugin which takes over and displays the PDF. Whatever ...
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Comparing GUI Automation Recording Approaches
I have recently joined the automation team. We are currently developing an automation framework for our web-app which is already in live environment for a while. I have designed and developed the ...
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Can I (in Eclipse/java) automate the logging of all enters and leaves into or out of all functions, including library ones?
While comparing the run of my wizard and a similar standard one, I have to check all entrances into all functions for both cases. Is there some tool that can automate the process? I can't do it by ...
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Philosophy to write Objective-C unit test
I am a really lost about it. I can study how write and run unit test in Objective-C with XCode, but I don't see how useful it is.
In resume, you have to write a method that will be called first to ...
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Unable to locate WYSIWYG element using selenium and phpunit
I am creating functional tests with selenium & PHPUnit, but I can't locate a WYSIWYG element using different locators:
Xpath
byId
byName
by Css Selector
Examples:
public function test(){
$...
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Help using Sensetalk (Eggplant's scripting language)
Sensetalk - Eggplant's scripting language, leaves a lot to be desired. I do not personally see why people feel the need to invent new languages all the time. The syntax is overly simplistic, and as ...
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What are the good free mouse and keyboard automation programs?
I know about autoit and about autohotkey but I am not sure that they are the same.
What other good automation programs are there?
Should I use different programs for automatic browser mouse clicks and ...
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How to make clicking more robust in web testing?
The specific tool I am using is Oracle Openscript, part of the Oracle ATS package. However, their web-based component uses xpath-based object identification, so it has a lot in common with other, more ...
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What is the percentage of requirement bugs that can be found by an inspection team? Low or High? [closed]
Can the inspection team find a high number of requirement bugs, or no?
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What are features of MS Visual Studio Coded UI Test framework that are not present in other tools?
I've recently started working at an organization that has no automated testing in place. They are migrating to Team Foundation Server for project management and source control, and use Visual Studio ...
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Using JMeter to record program http requests
Is JMeter designed to only record web browser traffic, or can it record http requests made by installed programs as well?
I set up JMeter as per these instructions and I do not see the web traffic ...
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What are the advantages of automated user acceptance tests?
I'm completely new to this stuff, and for what I've seen it takes a while to get used to it.
I once tried, but felt I was spending way too much time just writing the tests, or just fixing them 'cause ...
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How to build a test for iterative HTTP requests using JMeter?
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I would like to probe our own map tile server and for this I'd like to have a loop from which I could request individual tiles, each time a different one. Our tile server is based on ...
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What aspects normally differ when developing automation framework in QTP VS Selenium
I have worked in Selenium. For developing Web UI Functional Test automation suite I considered below aspects
Using TestNG Framework
Using Page Object pattern
XML based configuration
Logging of failed ...
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Someone added a JavaScript alert() to my site [closed]
I went to my site to notice that as soon as I go to it, 2 seconds later an alert(1); pops up.
It only shows the 1.
After 1 -2 clicks of OK, it redirects to another site.
How could this have ...
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TestComplete On-Demand Video Training [closed]
SmartBear, the vendor for TestComplete automation tool, have over a 90 on-demand training videos available covering various subjects. However, it costs $349 for a years access.
Has anyone watched ...
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Open-source/freeware testing tool for Set-Top Box
According to Wikipedia a set-top box (STB) is:
an information appliance device that generally contains a tuner and connects to a television set and an external source of signal, turning the source ...
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Path to becoming a security tester for a QA Engineer?
I was looking for some guidelines/documentation on how to start security testing my app and progress on as a security tester. It seems interesting to me to be able to break an application using trial ...
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Outage Tracking Tool
Is there any open source tool to track application outages/downtime?
I work in a testing project and sometimes due to some anomalies we can't do the normal system testing. I need a tool to track ...
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what is the best way to write automated end to end user scenarios?
When automating user scenarios, we typically cover an end-to-end user flow.
Unit testing recommends that each test method should be independant and only test one thing.
But things are different in ...
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Selenium webdriver
How to capture the 'capthca code' during registration a page using webdriver.
i tried to get the input and through to element (using find element on field). but, field is not recognized.
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Product Owners - level of involvement with .feature files
I am involved in a project where Given-When-Then formatted stories are written by the Product Owner (in a web-based story repository / JIRA), then created by Developers, while system test automation (...
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Testing random number generation
I have a program which generates random numbers. How can I test if the random number generator is generating actual random numbers?
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How to test a system that is part of a bigger system?
I have experience testing from a business perspective but I'm currently working in an system which is a small part of a bigger system, so I don't have a clear vision of the entire business value flow.
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Good strategy for automated regression where initial state can't be guaranteed or predicted
The situation
I need to start building automated regression for a very large web application with thousands of users. It is impossible to start from a known state, or even to be sure that data ...
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Selenium: Click on input-field with complicated selector
I need the right direction to click on a input field. When I copy the CSS path I get the following:
html body#root div#box div#content div#C_INTERNAL_OBJECT-98286949812.container div#mainPanel....
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Competencies and technologies knowledge for a automated tester [closed]
For someone starting to specialize in automated testing, what are the technologies worth to learn? What are the current trends?
Also, any good pointers where to start a professional career in ...
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